The purpose of this article is to resolve HA initialization error.
Symptoms:
2015-01-15T06:13:59.366+03:00 [06212 info 'commonvpxLro' opID=########-######28-84-5] [VpxLRO] -- BEGIN task-internal-27741 -- -- DasConfig.ConfigureHost --
2015-01-15T06:13:59.366+03:00 [06212 info 'vpxdvpxdMoHost' opID=########-######28-84-5] [HostMo::UpdateDasState] VC state for host host-386 (HA disabled -> uninitialized), FDM state (UNKNOWN_FDM_HSTATE -> UNKNOWN_FDM_HSTATE), src of state (null -> null)
2015-01-15T06:18:08.497+03:00 [06212 error 'DAS' opID=########-######28-84-5] [VpxdDasConfigLRO::Config] Timed out waiting for election to complete or for host to join existing master
2015-01-15T06:18:08.514+03:00 [06212 error 'DAS' opID=########-######28-84-5] [VpxdDasConfigLRO::Config] EnableDAS failed on host [vim.HostSystem:host-386,<hostname>]: class Vim::Fault::Timedout::Exception(vim.fault.Timedout)
fdm.log: [FFC8AB70 info 'Election' opID=SWI-6058ed8] Slave timed out
fdm.log: [FFB7AB70 verbose 'Cluster' opID=SWI-56f32f43] Marking slave host-349 as unreachable
Note:The preceding log excerpts are only examples.Date,time and environmental variables may vary depending on your environment